Mary Hays, nicknamed “Molly,” accompanied her husband during the American Revolution while he served as a gunner in Captain Francis Proctor’s company of the Pennsylvania Artillery Regiment. Like many wives of the time, she traveled with the troops and helped by laundering, cooking, and nursing soldiers in exchange for rations. At the Battle of Monmouth, during a three-hour cannonade, she aided her husband’s gun crew by carrying cartridges from the ammunition box to the loader, and she also carried pitchers of spring water to exhausted soldiers and artillerymen and removed wounded soldiers from the battlefield. After the war, she retired to her home in Carlisle, PA, where she outlived two husbands. Her actions as “Molly Pitcher” became immortalized in stories representing the women who tended the injured and supported troops in the heat of battle during the Revolutionary War.